Dr James Gilgannon
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)
email:
James.Gilgannon@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
Biography
2024-2027
University of Glasgow: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship - Experimentally defining the effect of deformation on metamorphisim
2022-2023
The Univeristy of Edinbrugh:
Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Computational analysis and mathematical modelling of dehydration reactions in space and time
Lecturing in Structural Geology (cover for Dr. Florian Fusseis)
2016-2020
Bern Univeristy: PhD (insigni cum laude) – ‘On the formation and rheology of polymineralic ultramylonites’
2011-2016
The Univeristy of Edinbrugh: MEarthSci with honours in Geology (1st class)
2010-2011
Stow College: HNC in Applied Sciences
2000-2004
St. Ninian’s high school, Giffnock, Scotland
Publications
2026
Zhong, Chang 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3636-3406, Eizenhöfer, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2607-4721, Persano, Cristina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6437-1511, Gilgannon, James and He, Zhiyuan
(2026)
Decoupled Upper-Crustal Deformation and Foreland Growth in Intracontinental Orogens: a Thermo-Kinematic Perspective from the South Tianshan, Central Asia.
EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026.
(doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-6687)
2025
Gilgannon, James and Herwegh, Marco (2025) On unifying carbonate rheology. Solid Earth, 16(9), pp. 877-898. (doi: 10.5194/se-16-877-2025)
2024
Watt, Ian D., Butler, Ian B., Gilgannon, James, Martins, Lucas, Fusseis, Florian, Haszeldine, R. Stuart, Molnar, Ian and Gilfillan, Stuart M.V. (2024) X-ray translucent reaction cell for simulation of carbon mineral storage reservoir environments. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 137, 104195. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2024.104195)
Articles
Gilgannon, James and Herwegh, Marco (2025) On unifying carbonate rheology. Solid Earth, 16(9), pp. 877-898. (doi: 10.5194/se-16-877-2025)
Watt, Ian D., Butler, Ian B., Gilgannon, James, Martins, Lucas, Fusseis, Florian, Haszeldine, R. Stuart, Molnar, Ian and Gilfillan, Stuart M.V. (2024) X-ray translucent reaction cell for simulation of carbon mineral storage reservoir environments. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 137, 104195. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2024.104195)
Conference or Workshop Item
Zhong, Chang ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3636-3406, Eizenhöfer, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2607-4721, Persano, Cristina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6437-1511, Gilgannon, James and He, Zhiyuan
(2026)
Decoupled Upper-Crustal Deformation and Foreland Growth in Intracontinental Orogens: a Thermo-Kinematic Perspective from the South Tianshan, Central Asia.
EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026.
(doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-6687)